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Japanese Artists’ Activities and Exhibits through newspaper articles, exhibition catalogs, and images of the artworks. 1917-1918 Exhibitions of the Japanese Art Association Learn More > 1922 Gacho-kai Exhibition Learn More > 1920s The Salons of America and the Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Learn More > 1927, 1935, 1936 The New York Shimpo and the […]
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JAPANESE ARTISTS AND MODERN NEW YORK Art, Migration, and Politics, 1910s–1940s This exhibition tells the story of Japanese and Japanese American artists who worked in New York from the 1910s through the 1940s. Across art schools, studios, galleries, commercial workshops, federal art programs, and wartime incarceration camps, they helped shape modern art in New York […]
Norio Araki (1885-1976)
Spirit and Sacrifice Beyond the Diamond
Spirit and Sacrifice Beyond the Diamond: 150 Years of Japanese Baseball Courtesy of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. There had been no greater agency in bringing our different races together than our nation’s game, baseball. Baseball is our real melting pot. – Frederick Lieb, American sportswriter and baseball historian (1923) About The […]
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Quakers and Japan. March 23rd, 2023 https://www.historyofjapaneseinny.org/wp-content/uploads/videos/GMT20230323-211746_Recording_1280x720.mp4#t=6.6
Credits and References
Special Thanks Institutions Barnard College Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania Friends Girls Junior and Senior High School Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia Keisen Jogakuen Tsuda University United States – Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Research […]
Biographies
Biographies Hugh Borton (1903-1995) was a Quaker, Columbia University professor and president of the East Asian Institute, and president of Haverford College. He worked on Japan in a variety of capacities over the course of a long career in government and academia. Before his first trip to Japan as a missionary in the 1930s however, […]